1039 ET - Gilead Sciences are weaker following news the Health and Human Services Department is considering cutting funding for HIV prevention, but analysts believe that threat poses only moderate risk. Potential cuts to CDC funding would not limit access to pre-exposure prophylaxis, a preventative treatment for HIV patients, because the organization only works on research, not providing the drugs, JPMorgan analysts say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is part of HHS, spent about $1.3 billion in HIV funding as of 2023, BMO analyst Evan David Seigerman says, the removal of which "should only represent a modest headwind" to Gilead. Gilead is off 3.7%. (katherine.hamilton@wsj.com)
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